Messages by Desiring God

Every Christian has a crucial need for covenant relationships, regardless of how un-American it may be.

The covenant that makes us belong to God makes us belong to each other.

We must seek a better understanding of the covenantal meaning of the local church.

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How shall we obey God's command to honor the king—or the president, or the governor—when they promote dishonorable deeds?

God designed prayer to give his disciples the joy of bearing fruit while God himself gets the glory.

The great need of the hour is to know God more deeply and personally and biblically. Only then will we find great delight.

We need to be like lights shining in a dark place. Which means we need to behold Jesus. We need to gaze at Christ.

The Bible's picture of our Savior too radical that it should be the mere creation of sinful men.

Even if we don't have the same heart for a particular issue facing us, let us have the same heart for each other.

If we say we are useless, we not only say no to the idea of the body, but worse, we say no to God. We don't trust him.

Gifts are for the glory of God and the good of the church.

Christianity has to do with everything your body has to do with—food and sex and sleep and talking and playing and working.

Why doesn't God give everyone the same faith and gifts?

The truth that there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, is a truth for inside the church and outside the church.

Love abounding in knowledge and discernment is what builds Christ's body.

The aim of your ministry as a Christian is to build up the body as a whole.

Christ did not simply die for an unworthy woman or for a reluctant woman, but for a woman who found him repulsive.

God’s grace works so powerfully in every believer that none remains unchanged. The grace that accepts us unquestionably also alters us irrevocably.

God was pleased to bruise his Son, not because he delights in violence, but because Jesus lived every second to glorify his Father in heaven.

When we sin, we hurt ourselves and those around us. But most fundamentally our sin offends an infinitely holy God who will not stand to have injustice go unpunished for long.

The Lord's Supper exists to deepen and strengthen our participation in the benefits of the cross and to nourish our fellowship with Christ.

Jesus is the point in redemptive history where the true Israel becomes the church of Christ and the church emerges as the true Israel.

God means to fill the universe with the glory of his Son by putting the church on display as the embodiment of his Son.

No matter what the issue is, it exists for Christ, or for nothing. Because CHRIST IS ALL.

Though our outer self daily wastes away, we do not lose heart. We have an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

The world sees the suffering love of Christ for sinners in the suffering love of his people for sinners.

We come to know Christ better when we share his sufferings.

God has a purpose for every obstacle and every frustration and every pain and every affliction that comes into our lives.

Our eternal destiny hinges on the way we run our race. Let us strive to win the eternal prize.

As we run our races, eternity hangs in the balance — disqualification and death, or victory and life.

Fear of hell is no proof of love for God.

The horror of hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.

God has made the cities of this world, and he cares for them. So should we.

God wants us to have assurance that no matter how much evil and suffering and futility we see now, he will make all things new.

What if it's true that Christ rose from the dead?

Assurance does not come from making holiness optional. It comes from knowing God is faithful.

God’s call is effective. It doesn’t go out and then return empty, but creates the faith it commands.

Being justified means being forgiven, being reckoned righteous, being loved by God, and being secured by God forever.

God put sent Christ to die in order to demonstrate his righteousness.

The ultimate goal of God in election and predestination is that God might be praised for his glory.

The glorious, unshakable, objective foundation of your being a Christian is that God chose you to be one.

Children prove whether you are truly great or not—whether you live to serve or live to be praised.

If second things become first things, we may have a rigorous religion, but we will not have evangelical, God-centered, biblical Christianity.

In this message, Pastor John discusses the connection between serving the saints and enjoying God.

William Cowper’s life was wrought with sadness and depression. But he still produced glorious hymns that resound loudly in our churches today.

How can Christians serve as the conscience of our culture?

The Bible teaches that God's aim is not for us to be rich in material goods, but rather for us to be rich in good works.

Take the supernatural seriously and realize that we are in warfare.

God will accomplish his purpose for the church, even if he choses to use a remnant to do it.